The Louisiana Democrat., 1887-09-28
A WHITE MANS GOVERNMENT
$ OR NONE At ALL.

two races are so distinct, their aims so
different, that no line of equality can
be marked out on which they can meet.
It would be indeed passing strange
that while the Northern republicans
are making frantic efforts to devise
some plausible reasons to spew out
their unholy alliance with the colored
element, the Louisiana democrats
should at this late period try to feast
on the rotting carrion.
Besides, if we are to inaugurate an
unified or mixed government, where
shall we begin? The hill parishes will
have none of it, as their majorities are
overwhelmingly white, and, to be just
and consistent the lowland parishes
would have to be handed over to the
tender mercies Of the blacks, as there
they outnumber the whites.
Consequently, at the very start Of
the movement, we have to declare to
the country at. large, that--we have to
undo all that the Democracy has done;
that tho 14th Of, September was a
farce; that our constitution is fraud;
that the era of reconstruction which
had been stopped by an indignant
people, must once moro resume its ne
farious march that the menagerie of
Mechanics Institute must reopen its
acrobatic displays; and that the War
moths, the Kelloggs, the Packards
and their suites must once more re-
sumo their usurped places.
The dilemma has only one horn
it is this: If the Democratic party,
which has barely entered into power,
needs reform, then it is failure, and
white mans government is failure;
hence, unifcation and a mixed gov
crnment is the remedy.
Now what sane man would ike to
see his life and property in the hands
of a government controlled by the pre-
pondering numbers of the colored raceY
The records of the reconstruction era
are there to show the results.
Besides, once declaring that we have
been in the wrong and appealing to
unifcation or mixed government as
a remedy, would it not reopen ques-
tions and issues which are accepted as
dead and buried7
Once start the question of races, and
you reopen all the war issnes, which
the Democrats and conservatives of
the North are trying to down with su-
perhuman efforts. Can: the South af-
ford7 Will the South dare to reopen
issues Of war or races?.The instant it
is done, the flash will burst through
the North like meteor, and revive
the dormant hatred of the war.
Even accepting unifcation or a
mixed government, how are you to sat
isfy the demands of two parties so dia-
metrcaily opposed? How will you
equalize the claims of the two antago
nistic races9' At the very beginning Of
the movement you will be faced by
the very causes which forced on this
State the 14th of September and it;
consequences. 'MThe colored race is to
day what it was in 1860 and during
the reconstruction era, namely, thu
passive excuse for blatant politicians
anxious Office holders and hungry of
flee seekers. The colored race is sat
isfed with its status; it only demand
that the laws shall protect it eqnall.
! with the whites, and that it shall en-
joy, in security and peace, its life ant
property.
i On the eve of State and Presiden
tial elections it certainly seems injndi
cious to raise issues, which strike a
the very vitality of the party. Hold
ing its power by a mere thread, De
mocracy would stand self.accuscd 0
it should open the campaign by al
raigning itself as corrupt, impractica
BILE and needing reform. Could it en-
ter a general presidential campaig1
with such record? It is not matte
of McEnerv, it is a matter of "hold
ing the Fort" it is g matter of unity
solidity aud conservatism, thereb
!: Strengthening the hands. of the North
ern Democrats and conservatives.
Certainly the South cannot clair
the election of Cleveland. The cor
servatives of New York elected hin
9 Less than 1000 Republican Catholics
incensed at the attack of Burcharc
decided the vote of New York. Eve
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